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  • EROTIC POEMS
    EROTIC POEMS
    JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
    `a world without love would be no world' Elegy II This bilingual edition of Goethe's erotic poems contains the Roman Elegies (1789), The Diary (1810), and a selection from the Venetian Epigrams of 1790. Editorial censorship has long obscured the true form and content of the Elegies, which were inspired by Goethe's sexual liberation in Italy and his love for the woman he took as...
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  • SMALL RAIN
    SMALL RAIN
    GARTH GREENWELL
    Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 'My book of the year . . . Rarely has illness made for such a compelling read' - John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 'Marvelous: exceptionally vivid, real, and true' - Colm Tóibín, author of Long Island 'Fundamentally about the beauty of life' - Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam 'Exquisite. Utterly mesmerizing' - Ma...
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  • MY HERO ACADEMIA
    MY HERO ACADEMIA
    KOUHEI HORIKOSHI
    What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called "Quirks" at age four? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless? Getting into U.A...
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  • BRITISH AND SPANISH RELATIONS DURING THE PENINSULAR WAR
    BRITISH AND SPANISH RELATIONS DURING THE PENINSULAR WAR
    JOAQUIN GARCÍA CONTRERAS / MALCOLM MARSH
    The Spanish Peninsular War (1808-1814), which saw open confrontation between the Spanish people together with their British and Portuguese allies against Napoleon, was more than just a war of occupation and national liberation. Remembered for its violence and drama, it was unusual given that two countries who had traditionally been allies, France and Spain, entered into armed c...
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  • BREASTS AND EGGS
    BREASTS AND EGGS
    MIEKO KAWAKAMI
    'Breathtaking' - Haruki Murakami author of Norwegian Wood A beguiling novel about three women struggling to determine their own lives in contemporary Tokyo. A New York Times 'Notable Book of the Year' and one of Elena Ferrante's 'Top 40 Books by Female Authors' On a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsuko, her older sister Maki...
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  • THE LIVING MOUNTAIN
    THE LIVING MOUNTAIN
    NAN SHEPHERD
    In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape. Shepherd spent a lifetime in se...
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  • SELECTED POEMS
    SELECTED POEMS
    FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
    'Lorca brought an understanding of the paradox that was Spain - sensuality chafing under a rigid moral code, individual desire at war with tradition.' Manuel Duran Federico García Lorca is perhaps the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers, known not only for his plays but also for several collections of poems published both in his short lifetime and after. Lo...
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  • THE ANNALS OF IMPERIAL ROME
    THE ANNALS OF IMPERIAL ROME
    CORNELIUS TACITUS / PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS / TACITUS
    His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome recount with depth and insight the history of the Roman Empire during the first century A.D. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant. Tacitus' Annals of Imperial Rome recount the major historical events from the years s...
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  • LOATHE TO LOVE YOU
    LOATHE TO LOVE YOU
    ALI HAZELWOOD
    An Instant New York Times Bestseller!From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a collection of steamy, STEMinist novellas featuring a trio of engineers and their loves in loathing—with a special bonus chapter!Under One RoofAn environmental engineer discovers that scientists should never cohabitate when she finds herself stuck with the roommate from...
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  • YOU
    YOU
    CAROLINE KEPNES
    'THRILLER OF THE YEAR' Daily Mail When aspiring writer Guinevere Beck strides into the bookstore where Joe works he is instantly smitten. But there's more to Joe than Beck realises and much more to Beck than her perfect facade. And the obsessive relationship quickly spirals into a whirlwind of deadly consequences ...A chilling account of unrelenting, terrifying deceit, Caroline...
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  • MORE THAN WORDS
    MORE THAN WORDS
    MIA SHERIDAN
    As children, Jessica Creswell and Calin Hayes's friendship was an escape from the darkness that surrounded them at home. Then one day, Calin never returned to the secret spot where they'd always met. Jessica, who had no way to find him, was heartbroken. Years later, she's living in Paris and working as a translator of ancient documents, and Calin has found fame and fortune as a...
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  • BAD GAYS
    BAD GAYS
    HUW LEMMEY / BEN MILLER
    An unconventional history of homosexualityWe all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those ‘bad gays' whose unexemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Many popular histories seek to establish homosexual heroes, pioneers, and martyrs but, as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and dastardly deeds...
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  • ULYSSES
    ULYSSES
    JAMES JOYCE
    With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive nov...
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  • BEWARE OF PITY
    BEWARE OF PITY
    STEFAN ZWEIG
    'The most exciting book I have ever read ... a feverish, fascinating novel' Antony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph 'I can't take any more of your revolting merciful kindness!' Who would have thought that the great military hero Captain Hofmiller - that living monument to his own courage - would have anything burdening his soul? But when he reveals his story, it is not one of bravery b...
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  • ENTANGLED LIFE
    ENTANGLED LIFE
    MERLIN SHELDRAKE
    'Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing' Robert Macfarlane The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. They can change our minds, heal our bodies and even help us avoid environmental disaster; they are metabolic masters, earth-makers and key players in most of nature's processes. In Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake takes us on a mind-altering journey into th...
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  • ROYAL ASSASSIN
    ROYAL ASSASSIN
    ROBIN HOBB
    'Fantasy as it ought to be written' George R.R. Martin The second volume in Robin Hobb's internationally bestselling Farseer Trilogy. Honesty is the bedrock for any relationship. But how can Fitz - royal bastard, trainee assassin, holder of secrets crucial to the security of the kingdom - bare his soul to his beloved Molly? Danger lies all around him - from the raiders savaging...
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  • LOVE ME TENDER
    LOVE ME TENDER
    CONSTANCE DEBRE
    A provocative and fierce novel about motherhood, self-discovery and defiance ...
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  • THE TWO LOST MOUNTAINS
    THE TWO LOST MOUNTAINS
    MATTHEW REILLY
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  • THE RETURN OF THE KING
    THE RETURN OF THE KING
    JOHN RONALD REUEL TOLKIEN
    Concluding the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the final part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. Featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkien's own design, the definitive text, and a detailed map of Middle-earth. The armies of the Dark Lord are massing as his evil shadow spreads ever wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to do battle again...
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  • YOUR STEPS ON THE STAIRS
    YOUR STEPS ON THE STAIRS
    ANTONIO MUÑOZ MOLINA
    A Best Book of the Year by NPR and Times Literary SupplementA Notable Book of the Year by the Washington PostA Best Thriller of the Month by the New York TimesA Best Thriller of the Year by Publishers WeeklyA couple's new life in Lisbon unravels in this heady and unsettling psychological thriller from one of Spain's most celebrated writers.A man travels to Lisbon ahead of his w...
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  • POYUMS ANNAW
    POYUMS ANNAW
    LEN PENNIE
    The anticipated follow up to poyums, from a singular voice in modern Scots poetry "A second, blistering collection that confronts patriarchy, gender-based violence and societal injustice with tenderness, a jousting wit and not a little righteous fury"--Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller There isn't a timescale for how you should healYour bad days are valid, your heartache is re...
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  • THE STRAIGHT MIND
    THE STRAIGHT MIND
    MONIQUE WITTIG
    These political, philosophical, and literary essays mark the first collection of theoretical writing from the acclaimed novelist and French feminist writer Monique Wittig."Among the most provocative and compelling feminist political visions since The Second Sex. These essays represent the radical extension of de Beauvoir's theory, its unexpected lesbian future. Wittig's theoret...
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  • ON CHESIL BEACH
    ON CHESIL BEACH
    IAN MCEWAN
    "It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward and Florence arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms...
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  • MY HEAVENLY FAVOURITE
    MY HEAVENLY FAVOURITE
    LUCAS RIJNEVELD
    The electrifying new novel from the sensational bestselling winner of the International Booker Prize. ...
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  • FLUKE
    FLUKE
    BRIAN KLAAS
    An Amazon Best Book of the Year So Far 2024 A Waterstones Best Book of 2024 One of Prospect's Top Thinkers 2024 'Utterly engrossing . . . Ambitious, accessible and important' James O'Brien 'Consistently gripping - dazzling in its sweep and thrillingly brain-twisting in its arguments' Tom Holland A provocative new vision of how our world really works - and why chance determin...
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  • THE INEXPLICABLE LOGIC OF MY LIFE
    THE INEXPLICABLE LOGIC OF MY LIFE
    BENJAMIN ALIRE SÁENZ
    A warmly humane look at universal questions of belonging, infused with humour, from the bestselling author of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. Sal used to know his place with his adoptive gay father, their loving Mexican American family, and his best friend, Samantha. But it's senior year, and suddenly Sal is throwing punches, questioning everything,...
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  • THE BETRAYAL OF THOMAS TRUE
    THE BETRAYAL OF THOMAS TRUE
    A. J. WEST
    Set in the buried streets of Georgian London and the outrageous underworld of the molly houses, a carpenter hiding a double life searches for a traitor who is betraying the secrets of the mollies. The visceral, raucous, tender and utterly enchanting historical thriller by the award-winning author of The Spirit Engineer. 'Heartbreaking, beautiful, lyrical. I was captivated fr...
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  • JOHN MACNAB
    JOHN MACNAB
    JOHN BUCHAN
    In 1925, John Buchan published his second most famous novel, John Macnab; three high-flying men - a barrister, a cabinet minister and a banker - are suffering from boredom. They concoct a plan to cure it. They inform three Scottish estates that they will poach from each two stags and a salmon in a given time. They sign collectively as 'John Macnab' and await the responses. This...
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  • SELECTED POEMS
    SELECTED POEMS
    JOHN UPDIKE / BRAD LEITHAUSER
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    23,75 €

  • WE'LL PRESCRIBE YOU ANOTHER CAT
    WE'LL PRESCRIBE YOU ANOTHER CAT
    SYOU ISHIDA
    **PRE-ORDER** THE BRAND NEW VOLUME IN THIS POPULAR SERIES ABOUT THE HEALING POWER OF CATS The highly anticipated new novel - The Kokoro Clinic for the Soul reopens in this delightful follow-up to the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel We'll Prescribe You a Cat for fans of The Travelling Cat Chronicles and The Cat Who Saved Books It's time to revisit the Kokoro Clinic f...
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    18,75 €